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Bessent links French supermarket hacks to Chinese AI model

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday that a Chinese artificial intelligence model was used in recent hacks that disabled refrigerators at French supermarkets. The hacks affected about 700 supermarkets and France’s public blood bank.

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